Talk:Slumdog Millionaire controversies/Archive 1

POV
This article is terribly one-sided. I did a quick google search on one section involving the criticism of the name "slumdog" and quickly came up with another side to the story. It appears that no one has made any effort to find out what the responses are to these criticisms. -- Ssilvers (talk) 01:51, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

City of God?
I don't see any more similarity of Slumdog with City of God than there is with Oliver! My opinion, of course, doesn't count for anything, without cited verifiable sources. But neither does the opposite opinion, without any cited verifiable sources. I've removed all mention of the supposed similarity to City of God. I also agree that there are serious POV issues, as well as the whole article being a nearly incoherent miscellany. MayerG (talk) 03:36, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

External links modified
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relationship to source material?
I'm a fan of the novel Q&A, which, admittedly, I only heard of and read due to the success of Slumdog Millionaire. However, after finally seeing the film, I'm a bit shocked. The film picks and chooses what it likes from the novel, and remixes it in some odd ways. To make a rough comparison, it would be like if Sam Gamgee had been made into a minor villain in the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings, and if they left out the elves and Saruman, and totally reworked the ending. I would suspect that there would be some controversy about the film as an adaptation -- particularly voiced by the author of the original book, despite his obvious conflict of interest. The quotes from Amitabh Bachchan begin to get at the idea, but I'm somewhat surprised there aren't more... hm... Arided (talk) 01:12, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Connections to Charles Ingram cheating scandal?
Shouldn't Charles Ingram also be mentioned in this article? Some of the plot elements in the film bear resemblance to his cheating incident on the UK version of Millionaire. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.156.7.165 (talk) 19:21, 28 October 2011 (UTC)


 * It is related, according to this article from The Guardian: . However, it would have a tenuous connection to the present article.  Maybe good to mention on the one about the source novel, however.  Arided (talk) 01:24, 17 January 2017 (UTC)